Have you ever used BJJ in the street?

I was looking up victorious deadly street confrontation stories that were put out thanks to BJJ.
I'm a BJJ blue belt. I agree sport / street BJJ has a slight difference but I'm always hearing people who were saved on the streets with grappling / BJJ training.

BUT I have used judo and wrestling much, much more. Belly-to-back suplex, kosoto gake, a seoi variation, kata guruma, and an armbar, off the top of my head... All used in the street. I could recall each instance vividly.

Some of you have brought up the number of assailants, which is a valid point. Number of assailants aside, I want to add these things:

* Hesitation to go to the ground if you're wearing expensive clothes. One second of hesitation could be fatal.

* To a degree, your movement on the ground are somewhat limited by the clothes you're wearing. While this is also true for most arts, the stand-up arts are somewhat less restricted by the clothes you wear.

* Tables, chairs, bottles in bars and clubs. Those things can bolster the proportion of luck factor in the outcome of a ground fight. You may accidentally hit a table or a chair while trying to perform a lock on the ground. It's easier to avoid these things on stand-up arts.

* Lamp posts, garbage bins, uneven ground, wet ground, concrete, dog poo, parked cars. These things can also bolster the proportion of luck factor in the outcome of a ground fight. It's easier to avoid these things in stand-up arts.

In my opinion, on a mat, the outcome of a BJJ match depends on 99% skill and 1% luck. In the street, for BJJ, the luck factor is bolstered so much that it's probably 50% skill, 50% luck.

That's right people. **** the lava, BJJ could be 'fatal' on the street as you might get dog poo on your gucci shirt. Yep.

I was looking up victorious deadly street confrontation stories that were put out thanks to BJJ.
I'm a BJJ blue belt. I agree sport / street BJJ has a slight difference but I'm always hearing people who were saved on the streets with grappling / BJJ training.

Wow. a blue belt. Go figure.

"We often joke -- and we really wish it were a joke -- that you will only encounter two basic problems with your 'self-defense' training.
1) That it doesn't work
2) That it does work"
-Animal MacYoung

No but I've used wrestling once, quite literally, in the street. It wasn't very effective.

I was crossing the street with some of friends from the gym after we finished training and one of them was like "uh oh, lights about to turn green."

I was all "pssh this is Cambridge -- where pedestrians can be gigantic douchebags and get away with it. I proceeded to do a couple of sprawls to taunt the oncoming cars...but once the light changed, I pussied out and bolted for the sidewalk.